EFFECT OF ORGANIC BASED COMPOST TEAS ON PEPINO (SOLANUM MURICATUM) GROWTH IN ORGANIC CULTURE

Compost tea, in modem tenninology is a compost extract, plant extracts, liquid manures and compost teas can be fmther understood in the context of their influences on the rhizosphere and phyllosphere. Also,manure and compost tea production is a brewing process that extractsmicroorganisms from compost or manure followed by microbial growth and multiplication including beneficial bacteria and fungi. To fmd out the effects of organic based compost teas on some vegetative traits including the height of stem before the appear of first flower, number of leaf before the first flower wasappear and reproductive traits like The number of flower per bush, the number of day to flowering in randomized complete block design with three replications was conducted. organic based compost teas treatments include 4 levels namely chicken manuare tea,cow manuaretea,sheep manuare tea and vennicompost tea and no fettilization (control). results showed that organic based compost teas exetted a significant effect on the number of leaf before the appear of first flower and number of flower per bush. Sheep manuare tea treatment showed a highest effect than other treatments on the number of flower and mean number of leaf per bush before flowering and promote the flowering, fmit set and fmit ripening.